Bagless in Seattle: The Cancer Spreads
10th April 2012
This trend is of a piece with those that seek to ban such things as smoking, trans-fats in foods, and salt in restaurant meals. In every case, political power is used to force an ideological agenda on people who are obviously Not With The Program. In every case, it divides a population into the Smart People who are enacting the ban and the Dumb People who don’t know what’s good for them and hence have to be forced into it.
Such strictures are one of the primary reasons that people are deserting places like California and New York and Michigan, and moving to places like Texas, where personal liberty is still a respected concept. You will no doubt have noticed that such ideological advocacy groups tend to prefer to get their programs enshrined into law on the Federal level whenever they can, precisely to prevent such ‘voting with the feet’.